Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars - A Trans Teen Coming-of-Age Novel

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir By Kai Cheng Thom

This is the highly sensational, ultra-exciting, sort-of true coming-of-age story of a young Asian trans girl, pathological liar, and kung-fu expert who runs away from her parents' abusive home in a rainy city called Gloom. Striking off on her own, she finds her true family in a group of larger-than-life trans femmes who live in a mysterious pleasure district known only as the Street of Miracles. Under the wings of this fierce and fabulous flock, the protagonist blossoms into the woman she has always dreamed of being, with a little help from the unscrupulous Doctor Crocodile. When one of their number is brutally murdered, she joins her sisters in forming a vigilante gang to fight back against the transphobes, violent johns, and cops that stalk the Street of Miracles. But when things go terribly wrong, she must find the truth within herself in order to stop the violence and discover what it really means to grow up and find your family.

Check out this excellent interview with the author at Teen Vogue here. The author says that "she sought to write the book that she would have needed as a young trans girl." How awesome is that?

The novel was also a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Add your review of "Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir" in comments!

Thanks to my friend Karol for the heads-up on this one!